National Journal articles from March 2001

National Journal archives from March 2001

First Things First.
March 3, 2001... Even Americans who have no children agree: Young people are the future of our nation. This means that our national priority must be to invest in superior teaching and learning, to build strong schools, to ensure quality health care for every...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
March 3, 2001... TAKING EXCEPTION "The Anti-Reformers" [2/17/01, p. 470] describes the Federal Election Commission's recently adopted coordination regulations as follows: "The new FEC regulation now defines coordination as `substantial discussion or...

Two FOR THE PRICE OF ONE: HILLARY THE DILIGENT, AND HILLARY THE NAIF.
March 3, 2001... Last Tuesday night, right after President Bush delivered his budget speech to a joint session of Congress, I went to Statuary Hall and waited for Hillary Rodham Clinton. I had covered the junior Senator from New York throughout her candidacy,...

BASHING THE SAT WON'T MAKE LIFE MORE FAIR.(standardized achievement tests)
March 3, 2001... In his much publicized Feb. 18 speech attacking the SAT, University of California President Richard C. Atkinson proposed that his university's eight campuses stop using the test as an admissions requirement. The result, he said, would be to...

A MAIDEN BUDGET THAT FLIRTS WITH REALITY.
March 3, 2001... Has the Bush Administration made a convincing case for its budget? No, but plenty of help from its critics is making things easier. Many of the attacks on the budget are foolish or dishonest, and it's a bonus that these are coming from the...

The Insiders.(various articles)
March 3, 2001... THEIR JOBS ARE RARELY GLAMOROUS, BUT THEIR POWER IS VERY REAL. KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE OCCUPANTS OF THESE 12 POSTS. Ever hear of a guy named Gary Claxton? No? Then perhaps you'd recognize him by his most recent job title: deputy assistant...

The Joy of Surplus Politics.
March 3, 2001... THE PROSPECT OF A FLOOD OF BLACK INK CERTAINLY MAKES LIFE EASIER FOR A NEW PRESIDENT HOPING TO WIN CAPITOL HILL APPROVAL OF A $1.6 TRILLION INCOME TAX CUT. Republicans have long used supply-side theories to justify tax reductions and have...

THE CAJUN CHARMER'S CHALLENGE.
March 3, 2001... For Rep. W.J. "Billy" Tauzin, RLa., the House's decision on the first day of the 107th Congress to change the name of the Commerce Committee back to the Energy and Commerce Committee was more than symbolic. The panel had been called Energy and...

EDUCATION'S BIPARTISAN BARGAINING.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2001... Education reform may be entering a new era of bipartisanship, but in the Senate, it could be too much of a good thing. When the Senate takes up education reform, possibly as soon as the week of March 5, it will likely be juggling two competing...

PIVOTAL EVENTS IN CONGRESS.(various articles)
March 3, 2001... Bush Woos Main Street from the Hill President Bush this week brought his case for his tax-cut, education, Social Security, Medicare, and other proposals directly to the American public. During a prime-time speech to a joint session of...

SHOWDOWN ON THE NORTH SLOPE.
March 3, 2001... In late February, a group of business lobbyists was summoned to Capitol Hill to help rally support for a massive energy bill written by Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Frank Murkowski, R-Alaska. The energy package...

LOBBYISTS LINE UP.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2001... At an early morning meeting on Feb. 26, just a few hours before Sen. Frank Murkowski, R-Alaska, unveiled energy legislation calling for opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, some 30 oil industry lobbyists and consultants...

HOLDING HIS OWN.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2001... Bill Clinton, because of his great grasp of policy and his effortless speaking style, was supposed to be a tough act for George W. Bush to follow. So far, that has not been the case, even in the forums that showcased Clinton's rhetorical gifts:...

Poll Track.(Brief Article)(Polling Data)(Statistical Data Included)
March 3, 2001... * Rap Sheet LYNNE CHENEY VS. SLIM SHADY In a tip of the hat to Tipper Gore's old cause, Lynne Cheney last week spoke out against explicit lyrics in music, specifically targeting the rapper Eminem, who, said Cheney, is "the most extreme...

MINERS: NO LUMP OF COAL FROM BUSH.
March 3, 2001... Jack N. Gerard, president of the National Mining Association, has nothing but good things to say about the political transformation going on in Washington. In his view, former President Clinton damaged the U.S. economy during his eight years in...

PLENTY OF DEEP POCKETS FOR SOFT MONEY.(Statistical Data Included)
March 3, 2001... Campaign finance reform advocates call it "contributor fatigue"--the weariness that individuals, corporations, and organizations feel after donating ever-larger amounts of "soft money" to the political parties. But if such a fatigue factor...

FROM THE K STREET CORRIDOR.
March 3, 2001... `Blacklisted' Clients Hire DC Lobbyists Several Washington lobbyists have been hired by the governments of Liechtenstein and Panama, and by Israeli banks, to help get them off an international money-laundering blacklist. The list was...

A SMALL STUDY CARRIES A HEAVY BURDEN.(strategic review at the Pentagon)
March 3, 2001... NATIONAL SECURITY When Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld crossed the Potomac for his first full Cabinet meeting in late January, insiders say, he was carrying budget estimates for his new President, and a dire message. Just to adequately...

THE TABLOIDS WIN ON SUBSTANCE.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2001... ON THE MEDIA To understand why the supermarket tabloids have been scooping the prestige media left and right lately--both Jesse Jackson's love child and Hugh Rodham's "success fee" broke in The National Enquirer--look no further than...

IN SEARCH OF NORMALCY.(China trade, membership in World Trade Organization)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2001... Like Bill Clinton, China trade issues simply refuse to leave center stage. It has been five months since Congress approved permanent normal trade relations with China, a move that opened the door for China to join the World Trade Organization....

Hotline Extra.(political items)
March 3, 2001... Hodges Dodges on Strom Pick If there's a shift in the Senate's balance of power before the 2002 elections, it very well might be because of South Carolina. "The most powerful man in Washington, D.C., is sitting in Columbia," said Morton...

BUSH POPULARITY UNLIKELY TO SOAR.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2001... How's he doing? Although it may seem simple, the question of how George W. Bush has done as President in his first weeks in office does not elicit an easy answer. After perhaps the messiest post-election period in American history, Bush cruised...

People.
March 3, 2001... At the White House Ruben S. Barrales, currently the president and CEO of San Jose-based Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, is coming to Washington to head the White House's Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, the Administration's...

PUBLIC NOT IN A FORGIVING MOOD.(poll on former President Clinton)(Brief Article)(Polling Data)(Statistical Data Included)
March 3, 2001... Remember back in January 1998, when the Monica Lewinsky story first broke? Very few elected Democrats came forward to defend President Clinton. They felt betrayed by his behavior. Not until polls came out showing that the public was strongly...

IN A GOWN ONE DAY, BACK TO WORK THE NEXT. IT'S GO, GO, GO.(Dick Cheney's health)
March 10, 2001... Here is how you can tell that real people do not buy this stuff about Dick Cheney actually being the man in charge: The Vice President, as the nation has recently, and unfortunately, had occasion to be reminded, has suffered four heart...

NOW HERE'S A CAUSE: THOSE POOR, POOR RICH FOLKS.
March 10, 2001... Listening to the Republican rhetoric, you might get the idea that making children of wealth work for a living is a radical, confiscatory assault on family farms, property rights, fairness, and the American way. In one of countless screeds in...

COMING SOON: SMART WOOD AND TALKING BEER.(semiconductor chips installed in pallets)
March 10, 2001... In the 1930s, the U.S. military needed to transport millions of tons of stuff to bases across the Pacific, so logistics wizards piled materiel on wooden platforms, known as pallets. Forklifts, and not people, could then do the lifting and the...

Untested Safe Net.(welfare reform)
March 10, 2001... BY ALL ACCOUNTS, THE 1996 WELFARE REFORMS HAVE WORKED AMAZINGLY WELL IN THESE BOOM TIMES. BUT THEY ARE UNTRIED IN A RECESSION. IS THIS REFORMED SAFETY NET READY FOR A DOWNTURN? BALTIMORE--On a wall in the waiting room of the Dunbar Family...

WELFARE'S 20TH-CENTURY JOURNEY.(Brief Article)
March 10, 2001... Socialist writer Upton Sinclair spent weeks in the slums of Chicago in 1904 when he set out to write The Jungle, his fact-based novel about the living and working conditions of poor urban immigrants in the early 20th century. There he saw...

POVERTY, BY THE NUMBERS.(Statistical Data Included)
March 10, 2001... Most people would classify a couple that lived on an income of $11,500 in 1999, or a worker who supported a spouse and two children on $17,500 from a low-paying job, as poor. But not the Census Bureau, the government's numerical arbiter. It...

The Trickster.(media coverage of poverty)
March 10, 2001... It's a quiet rule of modern journalism, rarely discussed, but widely understood: Poor people make poor copy. Even in prosperous times like these, when stories about poverty have an obvious news angle--misery amid splendor--they are a hard sell....

Beyond the Blue Canaries.(preparation for terrorist chemical attack)
March 10, 2001... THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS SPENT THE PAST FIVE YEARS IN A RACE TO HELP LOCAL GOVERNMENTS PREPARE FOR A CHEMICAL ATTACK BY TERRORISTS. THE INITIAL SPRINT WAS GOOD; THE MIDDLE DISTANCE IS PROVING TO BE HARDER. When you walk into clouds of...

INCIVILITY REIGNS.(bipartisonship)
March 10, 2001... Forget all that post-election gushing about a new era of bipartisanship. This week, as congressional Republicans rammed President Bush's tax-rate cuts through the House and repealed Clinton Administration workplace protections, they issued a...

PIVOTAL EVENTS IN CONGRESS.
March 10, 2001... Tax Bill Clears House; Senate Votes in May I n a largely partisan showdown, the House on March 8 took the first big step toward cutting income tax rates, the crown jewel of President Bush's budget. With a 230-198 vote, the House passed a...

CYBERCRIME TREATY ON TRIAL.
March 10, 2001... For a broad swath of Washington lobbyists, computer crime pays. They are hard at work trying to reshape a high-tech anti-crime treaty being drafted in Europe. This global treaty, they say, could undermine economic growth, stifle free speech,...

THE BUSH BROTHERS' CUBAN CONNECTION.
March 10, 2001... The state of Florida, which put George W. Bush in the White House by the slimmest of margins, continues to stir up dust for him. This time, the issues aren't hanging chads and electoral votes, but rather Fidel Castro, trading sanctions, and the...

PRO-SANCTIONS GROUP SEEKS LEFT-RIGHT UNITY.(Brief Article)
March 10, 2001... Cuba isn't the only nation that is the focus of lobbying efforts by both pro- and anti-sanctions trade groups; legislation to end sanctions against Iran, Iraq, Libya, and even nations that are lesser known, such as Azerbaijan, could come before...

FROM THE K STREET CORRIDOR.(Brief Article)
March 10, 2001... Three U.S. oil companies that once did business ill Libya have hired a bipartisan team of heavy hitters at the Duberstein Group to help them get back into that North African nation. Amerada Hess Corp., Conoco, and Marathon Oil Co. still own the...

STEM CELLS, THE NEXT ROUND.
March 10, 2001... Dr. John Gearhart sorts through hundreds of letters and e-mails a day. Many of them are from people who have diseases or need organ transplants --people who are hoping for a cure. Sitting in his lab at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in...

GREENEVILLE SUBMERGED IN COMPETITION.
March 10, 2001... There is a one-word answer to the question of why the Navy took 16 civilians aboard the attack submarine USS Greeneville and allowed them to operate it: competition. In a very real sense, the Greeneville officers now undergoing the military...

TRADE PITCH FROM DOWN UNDER.(proposal for U.S.-Australia free-trade agreement)(Brief Article)
March 10, 2001... Like the crocuses that have begun to blossom prematurely in Washington, ideas about trade are popping up early this year, as advocates try to catch the eye of the new Administration. One such harbinger of other bright ideas to come is a...

A YOUNG ADMINISTRATION'S HEALTH PROBLEM.(Dick Cheney's medical problems)
March 10, 2001... As he was leaving George Washington University Medical Center last November after surgery to open a dangerously clogged heart artery, Dick Cheney was quizzed on whether he had given any thought to asking George W. Bush to replace him. "No. Not...

THE RULES OF VICE PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION.(Brief Article)
March 10, 2001... The vice presidency has become vacant 18 times in the Constitution's 212 years. Nine vacancies were created when a Vice President ascended to the presidency, seven Vice Presidents died in office, and two others resigned. Before the 25th...

TAKING REDISTRICTING OUT OF LAWMAKERS' HANDS.
March 10, 2001... Very often, redistricting is the most partisan of all political acts--a ruthless effort to carve out favorable districts for one's friends, while gerrymandering one's political enemies out of existence. In most states, these battles pit...

Hotline Extra.(various political items)
March 10, 2001... Countering Perry With Sanchez Thrust president Bush left Austin only a few months ago, but already some observers see a sea change looming. Texans won't cast ballots for their next governor for 20 months, but "self-made oil, gas, banking,...

DON'T BET HOUSE ON REMAPPING PREDICTIONS.(Brief Article)
March 10, 2001... Democrats are crying foul over the use of unadjusted census numbers in redistricting, and Republicans are predicting double-digit seat gains in the House. Yet it's actually far too early to be making bold predictions about redistricting's...

State of the Nation.(Brief Article)(Polling Data)
March 10, 2001... KEEPING TRACK Public satisfaction with the direction of the United States has remained relatively constant over the past year, according to a poll by Opinion Dynamics for Fox News Channel. In the most recent survey, 51 percent said the...

Poll Track.(new Congress, Clinton's pardons)(Brief Article)(Polling Data)(Statistical Data Included)
March 10, 2001... * Congress How ARE THEY DOING? This week, the House tackled President Bush's tax-cut plan. About half of the respondents to a CBS News poll like the way Congress is working these days, but one-fifth are apparently paying little...

People.
March 10, 2001... Interest Groups Republican fund-raiser Pat Carpenter has taken up the torch for WISH List, a group that raises money for GOP women in politics who support abortion rights. Carpenter, 57, the group's new executive director, comes to WISH...

CHARM WILL TAKE BUSH ONLY SO FAR.(tax cut)(Brief Article)
March 10, 2001... The $1.6 trillion tax cut is shaping up as a test of leadership that will show whether the new President can translate personal popularity into political clout. President Bush's charm offensive has driven up his popularity ratings. But...

THE FOURTH R: REVOLUTION.(education and technology)(Brief Article)
March 17, 2001... Rarely in America's history has there been such a strong consensus, and opportunity, to dramatically improve our educational system. The national discussion now underway--from the White House to the halls of Congress to local school board...

Letters.
March 17, 2001... ON THE OTHER HAND Although I hate to address issues pending before the Federal Election Commission in this type of forum, Commissioner Karl Sandstrom's letter of March 3 leaves me little choice. Commissioner Sandstrom states, in describing...

BUSH AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: WHOSE ADVICE WILL HE HEED?
March 17, 2001... Democrats are only now coming to see a small but key element of President Bush's much-vaunted charm offensive. There is a hyphen in it: CHARM-OFFENSIVE. Originally, it seemed like one straightforward phrase, connoting an enveloping in personal...

HOW MCCAIN-FEINGOLD WOULD CONSTRICT SPEECH.(John McCain and Russ Feingold's campaign finance reform bill)
March 17, 2001... It all sounds so clean, so wholesome, so righteous: Close the loopholes in our campaign finance laws. End what Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., calls the "corrupting chase for `soft money.'" Curb the influence of corporations and labor unions. Stop...

GLOOM WAS ALL RIGHT. PANIC IS ANOTHER THING.(assessment of the current economic situation in the United States)
March 17, 2001... Until about a week ago, the past year's decline in stock prices had been a pretty orderly affair. That was good. Prices needed to fall, or at least to pause while the economy caught up. It mattered for the economy that, when this eventually...

Oops!(evaluation of policy makers)
March 17, 2001... LAWMAKERS ARE ALWAYS TRYING TO CHANGE THE WORLD. BUT NO MATTER HOW EARNEST OR WELL-MEANING, THEY OFTEN END UP DOING SOMETHING ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT THEY INTENDED. Would this damn airplane ever get off the ground? On a recent drizzly...

THE PRICE OF EQUALITY.(outcome of the Education Amendments of 1972)
March 17, 2001... When the U.S. women's soccer team in 1999 captured its second World Cup, Title IX was exalted as valuable and victorious. When the NCAA announced last year that wrestling programs had been discontinued at 136 schools over the past 20 years,...

The Permanent Frontier.
March 17, 2001... SPACE, THE FINAL FRONTIER. THESE ARE THE VOYAGES OF THE STARSHIP RUMSFELD. ITS MISSION: TO EXPLORE STRANGE NEW ARMAMENTS, TO SEEK OUT NEW CONTRACTS AND DEFENSE BUREAUCRACIES, TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO WEAPON HAS GONE BEFORE. CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN...

Feuding Reformers.(campaign finance reform)
March 17, 2001... ON THE EVE OF THE SENATE'S CAMPAIGN FINANCE OVERHAUL DEBATE, PRO-REFORM GROUPS LACK A UNIFIED STRATEGY. CAN THEY COME TOGETHER, OR WILL THEIR DIFFERENCES HELP SINK A `SOFT-MONEY' BAN? Ask Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., about his legislation to...

IN THE HOLE.(financing the US Capitol Visitor Center)
March 17, 2001... The Treasury is issuing three commemorative coins to raise money for the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center. But it's going to take more than coins to build the $265 million complex beneath the East Front of the Capitol. Just as some former lawmakers...

AN IDEA INCUBATOR TURNS UP THE HEAT.(policy makers and health insurance)(Brief Article)
March 17, 2001... Despite this year's crowded health care agenda, members of Congress are promising to address the issue of the uninsured, and that has prompted a key outside policy group to scramble to recruit lawmakers to help it influence the legislative...

PIVOTAL EVENTS IN CONGRESS.
March 17, 2001... Bankruptcy Reform Clears Another Hurdle After about a week of debate, the Senate on March 15 headed toward what was expected to be overwhelming and bipartisan approval of legislation that would make it harder for people to wipe out their...

FOR NOW, RIGHT WHERE HE WANTS TO BE.(public opinion of George W. Bush)
March 17, 2001... Halfway into his first 100 days in office, George W. Bush is right where he wants to be in public opinion polls. A solid majority of Americans like him personally, approve of the job he's doing as President, and, at least on the surface, are...

BUSH AND SCHOOL SAFETY.
March 17, 2001... Recent school shootings in California and Pennsylvania have sparked renewed commitments from the Bush Administration to combat violence in America's schools, a problem that consistently tops the public's list of education concerns. In addition...

TRADE GROUPS WANT NEW PAC RULES.(Brief Article)
March 17, 2001... For 30 years, trade associations have resented the obstacles they face in soliciting political contributions from people who work for their member companies. Despite the failure of attempts in recent years to amend the Federal Election Campaign...

MSA LOBBYING HEATS UP.(medical savings accounts)(Brief Article)
March 17, 2001... How do you promote a health care innovation that has suffered from disappointing sales? Supporters of medical savings accounts are taking a novel approach. They're lobbying Congress to lift a ceiling on MSAs that, so far, hasn't come close to...

GOV. BUSH BATTLES BIG OIL.(Gov. Jeb Bush)
March 17, 2001... The Bush Administration is being pulled in opposite directions by an escalating lobbying light that pits Florida and its governor, President Bush's brother Jeb Bush, against other Gulf Coast states and much of the nation's oil and gas industry....

From the K Street Corridor.(political events in Washington, D.C.)(Brief Article)
March 17, 2001... Afghanistan's opposition government has hired a Washington lobbyist to plea for U.S. assistance in its effort to oust the Taliban government. The government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani, which rules about one-third of Northern Afghanistan,...

MEDICAL MARIJUANA: THE SMOLDERING DEBATE.
March 17, 2001... A controversial assault on the nation's war on illegal drugs started in 1996, when a well-organized and well-funded coalition of' drug law reformers and grass-roots activists put legalization of "medical marijuana" on the ballots in California...

A SWEDISH ACCENT ON THE VOICE OF EUROPE.(Interview)
March 17, 2001... Sweden resisted joining the European Union for many years, finally signing up only in 1995. In January, the Scandinavian country assumed the rotating presidency of the organization for the first time, a job that gives it the lead voice in...

CEO RUMSFELD AND HIS PENTAGON INC.(Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfield)
March 17, 2001... Even before his first 100 days are up, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is well along in organizing Pentagon Inc., a modern-day company where ex-pols need not apply, where prized weapons such as the Army's Apache helicopter are suddenly on the...

THEY'RE MAKING HEADWAY IN GENEVA.
March 17, 2001... Fifteen months after hopes of launching a broad new round of international trade negotiations were left gasping in a fog of tear gas on Seattle's streets, more-narrowly-defined talks aimed at lowering barriers to farm trade are making...

THE IMPERIAL VICE PRESIDENCY.
March 17, 2001... In a 1992 Washington Post article on Vice President Dan Quayle, then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney portrayed the office he now holds in rather minimalist terms: "It's an uncomfortable position to be in," Cheney remarked. "The Vice President...

Hotline Extra.
March 17, 2001... Hubba Bubba If Chappaqua, N.Y., is losing its luster, former President Clinton should take heart. New York Daily News' Dave Saltonstall reports that New York City voters are weary of the "current crop of Democrats running" for mayor. "So...

GOP SEES 8 DEMOCRATS VULNERABLE IN SENATE.
March 17, 2001... National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Bill Frist and the committee's newly minted executive director, Mitch Bainwol, are leading the GOP's effort to maintain control of the Senate after the 2002 elections. Candidate recruiting is...

People.
March 17, 2001... Around the Agencies The Education Department is filling its ranks with both Washington and Texas hands. The No. 2 slot has gone to William D. Hansen, who headed President Bush's Education transition team and was most recently executive...

Poll Track.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 17, 2001... Views on policy and politics * Fixing Education LESSON PLANS The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee voted unanimously late last week to approve a "massive overhaul of federal aid for local school districts,"...

URBAN POLITICS CHANGES COMPLEXION.(Brief Article)
March 17, 2001... Cities have different problems from suburbs. Suburbs worry about overdevelopment and attracting too many people. Cities worry about having too little development and losing population. Suburbs worry about spending revenue. Cities worry about...

WHERE ARE THE SISTERS WHEN SEX ISN'T THE ISSUE?
March 24, 2001... What surprising characteristic do the following quotes, each uttered by U.S. Senators on the subject of the recently, overwhelmingly passed Bankruptcy Reform Bill of 2001, have in common? This bill will hurt women, children, and...

REAL CAMPAIGN REFORM: FLOORS, NOT CEILINGS.
March 24, 2001... Public financing of congressional campaigns? Free TV time for politicians? Forget it, says the conventional wisdom--McCain-Feingold is the only game in town. The voters don't want "food stamps for politicians." And the broadcasters' lobby will...

A COLLEGE NEWSPAPER MESSES UP, AND SO MIGHT YOU.
March 24, 2001... On Feb. 10, in a windowless hotel basement in Rosslyn, Va., I gave a speech to a couple of dozen college-newspaper editors at a conference on (ahem) "The Role of the Press in a Free Society." Always put strict accuracy first, I intoned in my...

For the Love of the Game.
March 24, 2001... TO UNDERSTAND GEORGE W. BUSH'S APPROACH TO HIS JOB, IT HELPS TO UNDERSTAND HIS LIFELONG DEVOTION TO BASE BALL. George W. Bush has had two sustaining passions in his life: Laura Bush and baseball. In keeping with the nature of his clan, Bush...

Feingold's Crusade.(Russ Feingold)
March 24, 2001... IN HIS DRIVE TO ROOT OUT CORRUPTION FROM GOVERNMENT, IS RUSS FEINGOLD DRIVING AWAY HIS SENATE COLLEAGUES? NEW ORLEANS -- Not many U.S. Senators would dare to stroll down bawdy Bourbon Street accompanied by a reporter. But Wisconsin Democrat...

Saving `No' to Soft Money.
March 24, 2001... MORE AND MORE CORPORATIONS SAY THEY ARE FED UP WITH A SYSTEM THAT DEMANDS INCREASINGLY LARGE DONATIONS TO THE POLITICAL PARTIES. SOME EXECUTIVES AND CORPORATE DIRECTORS SUPPORT A SOFT-MONEY BAN. Last December, former Rep. Tom Tauke traveled...